Talk:Free-fall

I'll give Her Majesty's Royal Flying Rat's Ass Medalto anybody who can deduct how high the building (from which the free-fall in this article begins) is through kinematics. --Savethemooses 17:21, 14 Nov 2005 (UTC)

It takes about 3 seconds or so to pronounce the Aaahhhhh! in the article. Multiplying that by 9.81m/s² is 29.43 metres for the building's height, or about 10 storeys. Hooloovoo 17:39, 14 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Good try. You were right on the time element, but you came to the wrong conclusion. --Savethemooses 21:48, 14 Nov 2005 (UTC)

'k, it's been a long time since I've last done these calculations... how about 9.81 * 3^2 = 88.29 metres, or do I only get one guess? Hooloovoo 22:25, 14 Nov 2005 (UTC)

You were missing two steps, and now you're only missing one more. --Savethemooses 22:59, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Got it now, I think... average speed the first second is (0+9.81)/2 m/s = 4.905m, times the time squared: 4.905 * 3^2 = 44.145m. I forgot to divide by two earlier for the average. Nonetheless this will be my last go at it. :) Hooloovoo 23:37, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Oh, come on Paul G. Hewitt, don't fail me now. [Must remember high school fysics video.] average speed is (0+9.8t^2)/2. distance equals speed time time, so distance equals 3*(9.8*3^2)/2 or 132.3 meters. --Isra1337 00:51, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)

NO!!!! NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!!!! --Savethemooses 22:58, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Oh, drat. Forgot to check the label and let myself multiply by time one time too many. Looks like Hooloovoo has it now. --Isra1337

A basic observation here. We cannot deduce the height of the building from the data given, unless an assumption is made that he (or she) fell from the very top of the building. Had they jumped from another floor, we can make no such deduction. Therefore I claim this contest as null and void. However, gut instinct and personal experience makes me suspect that they fell out (or were pushed) from the sixth floor, somewhere on the west side, wind about 15mph from ENE. --Bonjo Nelson 02:29, 16 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Also, the sixth floor is probably the lowest point at which you would want to throw someone out of a building to guarantee that they die. Just in case you needed to know. --Bonjo Nelson 02:32, 16 Nov 2005 (UTC)

I'd agree that the sixth floor seems likely as the spot where the individual screaming fell from, noting that if you pronounce the exclamation points the scream does not last for about 3 seconds, it's more like 6. and everyone knows that should the average person be pushed/fall out of a window, they would scream at about 1 second per story. Algorythm 02:56, 16 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Then the Splash! was not them liquifying, but rather the pool they fell in. We don't know if he was wearing a parachute either, and if it was deployed... ;) Hooloovoo 09:06, 16 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Holy shit you guys! Just say that the article was good, for God's sakes! --Some Idiot 09:42, July 1, 2010 (UTC)

Actually, to be fair, if they fell from a skyscraper they would've had to pull the parachute a lot sooner to survive. So I guess it's fair to say that they fell from a plane. Also, I don't think they were pushed. If they were pushed they wouldn't have been wearing a parachute. Just saying. -- 00:35, February 2, 2011 (UTC)